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sabri ates

Email:  sates@smu.edu

Webpage: sabri ates 

Assistant Professor

          Modern Middle East
 

Educational Background

Ph.D. New York University
BA Middle East Technical University

Ph.D. Thesis

    “Empires at the Margins: Towards a History of the Ottoman-Iranian Borderland and the Borderland Peoples,” New York University, MEIS-History, 2006.

 

 

 

Awards and Service

  • 2012 Fellow for the Texas Project for Human Rights Education
  • Koc University, RCAC Senior Residential Fellowship, 2009-2010
  • ARIT, Juokowsky Family Foundation John Freely Fellowship, 2009-10
  • University Research Council Grant, 2009-2010
  • Middle East Studies Association, Malcolm H. Keer Dissertation Award, 2006
  • HOPE Teaching Award, SMU, 2006
  • SCOS Fellowship, Cambridge University, England, 2000
  • Dean's Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, New York University
  • Dissertation Fellowship, ARIT (American Research Institute in Turkey)
     

Books and Essays

The Sheikh Ubeidullah Rebellion.  Book manuscript in preparation.

Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands: Making a Boundary, 1843-1914.  Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.

Tunalı Hilmi Bey: Osmanlıdan Cumhuriyete Bir Aydın (Tunalı Hilmi Bey: An Intellectual Journey  From the Empire to the Republic), Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2009.

"Bones of Contention: Corpse Traffic and Iranian-Ottoman Rivalry in Iraq," Comparative Studies of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 30, 3 (2010): 512-532 (Persian translation by Nazli Kamvari, in Irannameh 26, no. 1-2, pp. 1-30).

Osmanlidan Cumhuriyete Bir Aydin: Tunali Hilmi Bey , [From Empire to Republic: The Life of Tunali Hilmi Bey] (Istanbul: Tarih Vakfi Yurt Yayinlari, 2008).

"Oryantalizm ve Bizim Doğu" (Orientalism and Our East), Doğudan, Vol. 1, Issue 1, September 2007.

"The Ottoman Archives as a source for the Study of Qajar Iran," Iranian Studies, Volume 37, number 3, September 2004, pp. 499-509. (Persian translation by Nasrollah Salehi in Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies (Fasinameh-e Tarikh-e Moaser-e Iran), No. 35/pp.79-96.

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